‘A masterpiece of poignant brilliance .
What will become of Charlie? .
All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement turns him into a genius. Then Algernon begins to fade. heartbreaking’ GuardianCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. . . ‘A masterpiece of poignant brilliance